The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.