Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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