Man alone can enslave man.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.