In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn’t know.

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.