There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.