Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.