Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

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

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.