The truth does not lie on the surface.
The truth of man is what makes him man.
If you allow yourself to be domesticated, there will come a day when you will cry.
We will be happy only when we understand our role on earth, even if it is an insignificant one.
He who has lived for a long time in ravishing love and then lost it, sometimes grows weary of his noble loneliness. Returning humbly to life, find happiness in the commonest affection.
To love is not to look at each other, to love is to both look in one direction.
Tormenting is not the ugliness of this deformed human clay. But probably a Mozart is killed in each of these people.
Only children know what they are looking for. They give their whole soul to a rag doll and it becomes very dear to them, and if you take away their doll, they cry.
Vocation allows you to free yourself as a human being, but it is necessary for the human being to be able to follow his vocation freely.
By working only for material goods, we make our own prison.
We must ask each of them what they can offer us. Power, first of all, must be rational.
To plant an oak tree is to make ridiculous illusions that you will soon find refuge in its shade.
The greatest luxury in the world is the luxury of communication between people.
We must guard the lanterns: the gust of wind might blow them out.
It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others.
There are many people in the world whom no one has brought back to life.
Words only prevent us from understanding each other.
With the death of every man dies an unseen world.
You achieve perfection not when you have nothing left to add, but when you have nothing left to take away.
Escape consists in taking the first step. And one more step. This is where it all starts.
You can't suddenly make old friends.
What gives meaning to life also gives meaning to death.
Boredom is longing to see something and you don't even know what it is... This something exists, it is unknown and desired, but it cannot be put into words.
You answer forever for all those you have tamed.
Every man has his star.
Human life is priceless, but we always act as if there is something more valuable.
It's good when something new, something more valuable is born in the dispute between different civilizations, but it's terrible when they swallow each other.
The human kingdom is within us.
Why should we hate each other? We are all carried by the same planet, we are like the crew of a ship.
Man knows himself in the struggle with obstacles.