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

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

History is the science of people.

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

The will to be oneself is heroism

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.