When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

No victor believes in chance.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.