“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
“If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.”
“A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.”
“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
“You will never achieve anything without a desire.”