The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

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.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.