Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive