The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.