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

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

I can, therefore I am.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.