We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.