I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

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

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.