The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.