Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.