Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

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

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.