Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
From Simone Weil
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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