I Am I Plus My Circumstances.

Liberalism Is That Principle Of Political Rights, According To Which The Public Authority, In Spite Of Being All-powerful, Limits Itself And Attempts, Even At Ist Own Expense, To Leave Room In The State Over Which It Rules For Those To Live Who Neither Think Nor Feel As It Does, That Is To Say As Do The Stronger, The Majority.

Under The Species Of Syndicalism And Fascism There Appears For The First Time In Europe A Type Of Man Who Does Not Want To Give Reasons Or To Be Right, But Simply Shows Himself Resolved To Impose His Opinions.

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

The Preoccupation With What Should Be Is Estimable Only When The Respect For What Is Has Been Exhausted.

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. All Our Faculties Keep Us Within The Realm Of The Real, Of What Is Already There. The Most We Can Do Is To Combine Things Or Break Them Up. The Metaphor Alone Furnishes An Escape; Between The Real Things, It Lets Emerge Imaginary Reefs, A Crop Of Floating Islands.