Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.