The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

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