Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

I am I plus my circumstances.