"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."

"The evil that is in the world comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

"I knew that in order to be free, I had to be a slave to something. And that something was my own freedom."

"The only real progress is moral progress."

"Man is a creature who cannot remain silent."