We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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.
