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 heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

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

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

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

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

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.