It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
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