Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

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

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

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

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.