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.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

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.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.