Man alone can enslave man.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.