God is denied either because the world is so bad or because the world is so good.
Buddhism is in its own way a teaching about salvation from torment and suffering, but without a Savior.
In love there is despotism and slavery. And the most despotic is the love of the woman, who demands everything from you!
In sexual life, it is something humiliating for man. Only our age allowed the disclosure of sexual life. And the man was broken into pieces. As Freud and psychoanalysis are, so is the contemporary novel. This is the cynicism of the contemporary era, but it is also an enrichment of knowledge about man.
Politeness is a symbolically conditioned expression of respect towards any person.
Belief in immortality is not only the comforting belief that makes life easier, it is also a terrible, fearful belief that burdens life with immeasurable responsibility. It could be said that the unbelievers have had it easier than the believers.
The power of authority implies the freedom of its recognition.
All revolutions ended in backlash. This is inevitable. It is a law. And the more frenzied and fierce the revolutions, the stronger were these counter-reactions. In the alternation of revolutions and reactions we are dealing with a kind of magic circle. She can't go any deeper. The very content of the popular will is not interested in the democratic principle. The popular will can want the most terrible evil, and the democratic principle has nothing to reply.
The state exists not to turn earthly life into heaven, but to prevent it from turning permanently into hell.
Good deeds that are not done out of love for people, but for the salvation of one's own soul, are not good. Where there is no love, there is no good.
Dogmatism represents integrity of spirit; the creator is always dogmatic, always chooses boldly and does what he has chosen.
The gospel is a teaching about Christ, and not a teaching of Christ.
There is an incommensurability between masculine and feminine love, an incommensurability between demands and expectations. Male love is a particle, it does not encompass the whole being. Feminine love is integral. A woman becomes possessed. Herein lies the mortal danger of feminine love. In female love there is a magic, but despotic. And there is always a discrepancy from the ideal female image.
Woman is unusually prone to slavery and at the same time inclined to enslave.
Knowledge is imposed, but belief is free.
Individualism always kills the personality and the individual.
True conservatism is eternity's struggle with time, incorruptible resistance to decay.
When you have no wisdom, it remains to love wisdom, that is, to be a philosopher.
The conflict between mercy and freedom... Mercy can lead to renunciation of freedom, freedom can lead to cruelty...
Man cannot and must not, in his ascension, fly from the world, absolve himself of his responsibility towards others. Everyone is responsible for everything... Freedom should not become an eradication of the responsibility of the neighbor. Mercy, compassion remind us of this freedom.
Culture was born from cult.
There is a deep inner tragedy inherent in love, and it is no accident that love is linked to death... I have always found it strange that people talk about the joys of love. It would be more natural, in a deeper view of life, to talk about the tragedy of love and the pain of love... Love, in fact, knows no fulfilled hopes. There is sometimes a relatively happy family life, but this is a happy routine.
Love is the personal-intimate sphere of life, in which society is not allowed to interfere...
When it comes to love between two people, any third is superfluous... Love is always illegal. Legal love is dead love. Legality exists only in everyday life, and love is out of the ordinary. The world should not know that two beings love each other. In the institution of marriage there is a shameless exposure, in front of society, of what should be hidden, covered from outside eyes... Marriage, on which the family is based, is a very dubious sacrament.
The myth of the fall is a myth of man's greatness.
Fools too can be saved in their own way, and even the ignorant and idiots, but we allow ourselves to doubt that the idea of the Kingdom of God includes its people exclusively with fools, ignoramuses and idiots. The apostle advises us to be babies with the heart, not with the mind.
The people think they are free in revolutions, but this is a terrible self-delusion. The people are slaves to the elements of darkness... In revolution there is and cannot be freedom, revolution is always hostile to the spirit of freedom... Revolution... happens to man as a disease happens to him, a accident, natural disaster, fire or flood.
There is no science, there are only sciences.
There is no such thing as a class truth, there is only a class lie.
Not only creative thought, but also creative passion, the passionate will of a passionate feeling must unleash the mind and melt the objective world that appears before this mind.