It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

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

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.