A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.