To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

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

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

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

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.