If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.