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

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

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

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.