Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
Victor HugoRead
Topic
3,495 quotes
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.
A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.