One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

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

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.