Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.