One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

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

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.