If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

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

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.