"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work"
"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought"
"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat"
"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission"
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights"
"Nothing is less instructive than a machine"
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison"
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication"
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else"
"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe"
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances"
"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her"
"I can, therefore I am"
"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded"
"Humility is attentive patience"
"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace"
