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

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

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

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

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