Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism, of physiological or pathological origin... that makes our ideas.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Every peasant has a lawyer inside him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only ... with the idea God has of you.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
The devil is an angel too.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Consciousness is a disease.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories