The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

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

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

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

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.