There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.