We all have a weakness for beauty.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.