I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.