"We will rule by ourselves. In two years or in six years. Patiently, substantially, at ease."

"These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby."

"had ten thousand students, one hundred lecture- rooms, great libraries, and six immense blocks of dormitories four stories high; its observatories, said Yuan Chwang, "were lost in the vapors of the mo…"

"It is the policy of force which finally will always triumph. But when one has not got the force, one can also combat by the idea."

"In ourselves alone the absolute light keeps shining, a sigillum falsi et sui, mortis et vitae aeternae , and the fantastic move to it begins: to the external interpretation of the daydream, the cosmic…"