The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

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

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.