Philosopher

Setiap kehidupan yang sempurna adalah perumpamaan yang diciptakan oleh Tuhan.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Masyarakat tidak memiliki poin pemikiran.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Ujian dari apa yang nyata adalah keras dan kasar. Sukacita ditemukan di dalamnya, bukan kesenangan. Apa yang menyenangkan adalah milik mimpi.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Sebuah doktrin itu sendiri tidak memiliki tujuan, tetapi sangat diperlukan untuk memiliki satu jika hanya untuk menghindari tertipu oleh doktrin palsu.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Imajinasi selalu menjadi jalinan kehidupan sosial dan dinamika sejarah. Pengaruh kebutuhan dan dorongan nyata, kepentingan dan materi nyata, tidak langsung karena orang banyak tidak pernah menyadarinya.

Aku ingin orang yang kucintai juga mencintaiku. Tetapi, kalau dia mempersembahkan seluruh dirinya secara total kepadaku, maka dia jadi tidak ada lagi, dan aku pun jadi tidak lagi mencintainya. Dan selama dia tidak mempersembahkan diri sepenuhnya kepadaku, itu berarti dia tidak terlalu mencintaiku.

Orang pintar yang membangga-banggakan kecerdasannya seperti seorang terpidana yang bangga dengan penjaranya yang besar.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.