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

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

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.