The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.