A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.