Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

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