To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.