With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.