The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.