Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits – and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Pages: 1 2
