We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.