There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

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