"The will to overcome an emotion is ultimately only the will of another emotion or of several other emotions."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up…"

"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both — a philosopher."

"Man has been educated by woman. It is woman who has spoiled him."