Grown ups are certainly very strange.
Straight ahead you can’t go very far.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
It’s useful because it’s beautiful.
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.
The essential is invisible to the eyes.
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
He who never says “no” is no true man.
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.