Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.