Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.