Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.