The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

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

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.