Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

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

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

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

I am I plus my circumstances.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.