The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.