A hurtful act is a transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. Rare indeed is the true contact with good and evil.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal. To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

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.

The true God is the God we conceive as all-powerful, but Who nevertheless does not command it where He has the power, for God is found only in the heavens or here below in secret.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing...

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight – the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

There isn’t a man on earth who doesn’t at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.

Political parties are a marvellous mechanism which, on the national scale, ensures that not a single mind can attend to the effort of perceiving, in public affairs, what is good, what is just, what is true. As a result – except for a very small number of fortuitous coincidences – nothing is decided, nothing is executed, but measures that run contrary to the public interest, to justice and to truth.

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.