“Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.”

“Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality”

“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.”

“Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.”

“One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.”

“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all the monuments of art that religions have inspired, what would remain of the great dreams of humanity? To give to men that portion of hope and illusion without which they cannot live, such is the reason for the existence of gods, heroes, and poets. During fifty years science appeared to undertake this task. But science has been compromised in hearts hungering after the ideal, because it does not dare to be lavish enough of promises, because it cannot lie”