One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. |
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. |
Pain is the root of knowledge |
Pain is the root of knowledge |
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. |
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. |
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. |
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. |
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either |
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough. |
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. |
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. |
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. |
The future is made of the same stuff as the present |
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. |