Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.