The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

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

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.