Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.