Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.