Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
I can, therefore I am.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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 real life.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Humility is attentive patience.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.