It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.