Pascal Bruckner Quotes

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.