The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.