All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.