“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. ”

“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”

“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”