Life is fired at us point blank.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

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

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

To wonder is to begin to understand.

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

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.

I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

It's all been very interesting.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.