At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.