It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
Analysis kills spontaneity.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
Joy is the vital air of the soul.
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
Time wasted is a theft from God.
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
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