Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.