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.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

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.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

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

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.