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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.