The sole substitute for an experience that we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions especially selfish ones.

But it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

If only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were just simple, we could separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart.

Skepticism is a way of freeing the dogmatic mind, and that's where its value lies.

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

In military science there is a principle more important than “Forward”: it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.