The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Renunciation is submission to time.