There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.