There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

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

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.