The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

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

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.