Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.