A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.