Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making a….

Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of hum….

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense….

Power without authority is tyranny..

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum..

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolution….

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost,….

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very ….

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher..

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence..

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning ….

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God..

If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that politic….

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art….

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of o….

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to….

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success..

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been….

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know..

That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau….