If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.