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

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.