Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.