French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.