Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

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

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.