1. “Peace, if it exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.”
2. “Those who lead men to the conquest of material things have no need of justice and charity.”
3. “The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. they have also created a romanticism of contempt.”
4. “Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle’s remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.”
5. “That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.”
6. “The modern moralists extol… the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.”
7. “I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man’s future, that prediction would be contrary of reassuring.”
8. “Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in possession of things which cannot be shared .”
9. “The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-labourer and the merchant.”
10. “It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.”
