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

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.