The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

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

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

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

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

To live is to feel oneself lost.

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