War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

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

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.