Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.