We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on h...
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.
Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.
Todos sin excepción tenemos nuestros seres respirables. Si nos faltan, nos falta el aire y nos ahogamos.
Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,--places, sinecure...
This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. Nothing can express the dangerous chasm of this unlooked-f...
This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness. To set up a theory that l...
There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.
There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.
There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Rapée to the knacker of Montfaucon. Fex urbis, exclaims Cicero; mob, adds Burke, ind...
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At
The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philos...
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly speaking, loved in spite of yourself. To be served is to be caressed.
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake -- let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.
The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.