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

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.