Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.

All of us, among the ruins, are preparing a renaissance beyond the limits of nihilism. But few of us know it.

Barbarism is never temporary. Sufficient allowance is never made for it, and, quite naturally, from art barbarism extends to morals.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.

[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all t…