A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.