It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.