Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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.
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