If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

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

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

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.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

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