The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

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

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.