Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.