The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.