Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
A work of art has an author and yet when it is perfect it has something which is anonymous about it.
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort, the will, the work, which in the intelligence as sway over the energy capable of making it fully e...
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilize...
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characte...
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscio...
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.