The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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