Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. "

Related Quotes:

" I can, therefore I am. "

" 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. "

" Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. "

" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "

" I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. "

" Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. "

" The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. "

" Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. "

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

" Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. "

" In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. "

" 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. "

" As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. "

" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "

" Humility is attentive patience. "

" For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. "

" 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 doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "

" 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. "

" Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. "

" 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. "

" The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. "

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

" One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. "

" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "

" 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. "

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

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

" 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. "

" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "