The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?