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

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

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.

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