The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.