We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.