His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.