Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.