Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
The true subject of science is the beauty of the world.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors, to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
To desire friendship is a great fault. Friendship should be a gratuitous joy like those afforded by art or life. We must refuse it so that we may be worthy to receive it; it is of the order of grace.
What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
