I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion.

To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God's gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all.

All distinctions between the many different kinds of love are essentially abolished by Christianity.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Man is the synthesis of the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.

Being able to forget depends always on how one remembers, but how one remembers depends in turn on how one experiences reality. The person who sticks fast in it with the momentum of hope will remember in a way that makes him unable to forget.

The best proof adduced of the wretchedness of life is that derived from contemplating its glory.