The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Renunciation is submission to time.

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.