The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.