Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.