The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give ou...
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
A work of art has an author and yet when it is perfect it has something which is anonymous about it.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.