It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.