The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

I am the philosophy before any philosopher.

Don't hate me forever, Arty, " whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

I would love to have a robot at home.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.