We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

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