"What these thinkers despise in the man of study is precisely the man who lays no foundations, who does not conquer, w…"

"For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his “atheism” consists less in denying God than in shifting him to ma…"

"Up until our own times men had only received two sorts of teaching in what concerns the relations between politics an…"

"Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it… With them morality was violated, but moral notio…"

"Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested…"

"The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also cre…"

"The modern moralists extol … the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life."

"What these thinkers despise in the man of study is precisely the man who … does not predicate the capture of its envi…"

"The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action..."

"That teaching of modern metaphysics which exhorts man to feel comparatively little esteem for the truly thinking port…"