Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "

" It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. "

" The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. "

" More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. "

" Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. "

" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "

" I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. "

" In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. "

" If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. "

" Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. "

" The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. "

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. "

" Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. "

" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "

" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "

" To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. "

" Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. "

" Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. "

" A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. "

" Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. "

" I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. "

" Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. "

" 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. "

" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

" If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. "

" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "