By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.