The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

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

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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.