Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

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

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

I can, therefore I am.