If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

One cannot live without inconsistency.