When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.