- "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
- "We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
- "We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
- "We cannot put off living until we are ready."
- "To live is to feel oneself lost."
- "To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless itis moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."
- "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
- "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."
- "Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
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