The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.