To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Love is faith and one faith leads to another.
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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