Renunciation is submission to time.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.