Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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.
