When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs