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

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.