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

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

Distance is the soul of beauty.

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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.