Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.