The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.