I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.