Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.