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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to hav...  
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which w...  
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.  
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except ...  
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in...  
All sins are attempts to fill voids.  
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on ...  
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attain...  
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.  
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is t...  
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, ...  
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is ju...  
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in instituti...  
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.  
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin...  
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.  
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is n...  
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, a...  
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothin...  
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and eq...  
Humility is attentive patience.  
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its ...  
I can, therefore I am.  
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from ...  
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and univer...  
If Germany, thanks to and his successors, were to enslave the European...  
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the E...  
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall...  
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real l...   Imagination
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of his...  
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggl...  
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democrac...  
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitab...  
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suff...  
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over ...  
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.  
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting ...  
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the distri...  
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. Th...  
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.  
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.  
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give ris...  
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.  
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in...  
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded...  
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any brea...  
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.  
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.  
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.  
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able t...  
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.  
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of...  
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought a...  
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is...  
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and s...  
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the ins...  
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rTgimes is not the spiritual ...  
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denie...  
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because ...  
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain en...  
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but peop...  
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.  
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need o...  
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.  
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither ...  
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuito...  
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works ne...  
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocki...  
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their b...  
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our...  
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.  
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things w...  
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.  
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we...  
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal an...  
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill i...  
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds f...  
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find rea...