A hero is a man who does what he can.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.