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

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.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

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

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

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."