We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.