Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart..

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides….

Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, f….

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side..

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gestu….

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of ou….

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which,….

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others..

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much..

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts i….

We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imper….

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to ….

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itse….

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches….

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are o….

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all….

There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him t….

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more….

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand..

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality..

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy..