When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.