Humility is attentive patience.
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
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.
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
...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.
We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.
Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
I can, therefore I am.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
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