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

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

I am I plus my circumstances.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.