To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.