The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.