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

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.

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.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.