Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.