“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.”
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.