Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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.
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.
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
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 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.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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