The only great spirit of our time.

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

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.