What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

What is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.