Quotes from Georges Sorel

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.

Verbal communication is much easier than written communication, because words act on the feelings in a mysterious way and easily establish a current of sympathy between people; it is for this reason that an orator is able to produce conviction by arguments which do not seem very comprehensible to any one reading the speech later.

All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers' syndicates

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

On doit procéder par tâtonnements, essayer des hypothèses vraisemblables et partielles se contenter d'approximations provisoires, de manière à laisser toujours la porte ouverte à des corrections progressives.