We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

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

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

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.