As human beings we are endowed with freedom of choice and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the...
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its...
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a...
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is...
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a...
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
There is one and only one thing in modern society more hideous than crime...
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems...
In the intellectual order the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less...
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity even...
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Humility is attentive patience.
I can therefore I am.
Evil being the root of mystery pain is the root of knowledge.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and...
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned...
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in...
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history....
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only...
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love...
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
If Germany thanks to Hitler and his successors were to enslave the European...
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame...
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the...
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of...
Equality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and...
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it...
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on...
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works...
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality...
Beauty always promises but never gives anything.
Most works of art like most wines ought to be consumed in the district of...
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy...