Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.