To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.