I Am Free By Compulsion, Whether I

To Live Is To Feel Oneself Lost.

The Mass Believes That It Has The Right To Impose And To Give Force Of Law To Notions Born In The Café.

Man In A Word Has No Nature; What He Has... Is History.

[i]t Is Necessary To Insist Upon This Extraordinary But Undeniable Fact: Experimental Science Has Progressed Thanks In Great Part To The Work Of Men Astoundingly Mediocre, And Even Less Than Mediocre. That Is To Say, Modern Science, The Root And Symbol Of Our Actual Civilization, Finds A Place For The Intellectually Commonplace Man And Allows Him To Work Therein With Success.

To Be Surprised, To Wonder, Is To Begin To Understand. This Is The Sport, The Luxury, Special To The Intellectual Man.