Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.