I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.