War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.