The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

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

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.