If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.