We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.