Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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.
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
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.
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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