One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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