“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

The far you run away, the deeper your guilt builds.

Don’t feel guilty to move on from people who are hindering your growth and happiness.

Sometimes people pretend that you are not enough for them so they don’t feel guilty about hurting you.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.