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.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.