I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
