There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprentic...
Humility is attentive patience.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and Go...
Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
I can, therefore I am.
It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good --...
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.