Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.