Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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.
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.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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.
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 not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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.
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.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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.
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.
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.
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