The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

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.