 To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. |
| I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. |
| In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. |
| For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. |
| We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. |
| Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. |
| I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. |
| Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. |
| All sins are attempts to fill voids. |
| Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. |
| In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. |
| 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. |
| Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. |
| To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Topics: Friendship |
| A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. |
| Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. |
| In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. |
| Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. |
| 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. |
| The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. |
