I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.