I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.