“I can, therefore I am.”
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
“Nothing is less instructive than a machine.”
“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.”
“Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.”
“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”
“We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.”
“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.”
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
“Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.”
“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.”
“Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?”
“Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.”
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
“A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.”
“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
“I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.”
“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.”
“In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
“An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.”
“Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.”
“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”