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

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.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.