Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

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

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.