On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells...
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound...
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
One only really sees with the heart.
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
That’s the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
For there is but one problem – the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.