I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.