Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of our fathers as preserving the land of our children.

Revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting-up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Thinking is the endeavor to capture reality by the means of ideas.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

We cannot put off living until we’re ready. Life is fired at us point blank.

I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself.