What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the re...
Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.