On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.