“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.