Sourced and curated.

There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

Confessions · 400

★ 7.8

Letter · Religious literature

St. Cyprian

256

★ 7.3

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

197

★ 7.1

Political literature

What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

The Rebel · 1951

★ 7.1

Treatise · Religious literature

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

220

★ 7.1

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!"

The Rebel · 1951

★ 7.1

Film · Epic (film) · Drama (film) · Epic · Drama

The Ten Commandments · 1956

★ 7.1

A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

The Fall · 1956

★ 6.2

Interview

Anwar Sadat

1978

★ 6.2

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 6.1

Essay

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

The Sea Close By · 1953

★ 6.1

Scripture · Religious literature

But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Exodus 2:22 · 1405 BC

★ 5.5

Scripture · Religious literature

It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but what it demands of you.

Exodus 4:10 · 1405 BC

★ 5.5

Novel · Political literature

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

The Rebel · 1947

★ 5.4

A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.

Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

City of God · 426

★ 4.9

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

The Rebel · 1951

★ 4.6

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

The Fall · 1956

★ 4.5

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Confessions · 400

★ 4.0

Biography · Historical literature

Suetonius

★ 3.9

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

St. Cyprian

251

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Hear the other side.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

391

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Deuteronomy 6:4 · 1405 BC

★ 3.8

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Fortune assists the brave.

The Self-Tormentor · 163 BC

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play)

161 BC

★ 3.8

He is wise who tries everything before arms.

The Eunuch · 161 BC

★ 3.8

Truth does not blush.

Against the Valentinians · 207

★ 3.8

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

Ad Scapulam · 217

★ 3.8

Letter

St. Cyprian

Letter to Jubaianus · 256

★ 3.8

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.

Confessions · 400

★ 3.8

The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.8

Integrity has no need of rules.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.8

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

The Self-Tormentor · 163 BC

★ 3.7

Letter

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.

1944

★ 3.7

Essay · Political literature

Reflections on the Guillotine · 1957

★ 3.7

Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language; yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

On the Testimony of the Soul · 198

★ 3.6

Sisyphyus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.6

I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.

The Fall · 1956

★ 3.6

Film · Epic (film) · Drama (film) · Epic · Drama

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

The Ten Commandments · 1956

★ 3.6

Edward Said

Orientalism · 1978

★ 3.6

God became man so that man might become God.

Athanasius

On the Incarnation · 318

★ 2.2

A law that is not just does not seem to me to be a law.

389

★ 2.2

Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.

The Girl from Andros · 166 BC

★ 2.1

Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?"

Nothing has yet been said that's not been said before.

The Self-Tormentor · 163 BC

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play)

The Eunuch · 161 BC

★ 2.1

There are vicissitudes in all things.

The Eunuch · 161 BC

★ 2.1

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

On the Flesh of Christ · 206

★ 2.1

It is to believed because it is absurd.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

On the Flesh of Christ · 206

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

Plotinus

Enneads · 270

★ 2.1

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

The Eunuch · 161 BC

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

Ptolemy

Tetrabiblos · 168

★ 2.0

It should be known that at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of a dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

Ibn Khaldun

1377

★ 2.0

Essay

There is no love of life without despair of life.

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.

Love of Life · 1937

★ 2.0

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned... Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

1979

★ 2.0

Wisdom literature

Ptahhotep

The Maxims of Ptahhotep · 2375 BC

★ 1.9

Wisdom literature

Do not set your heart on wealth… Do not strain to seek increase, What you have, let it suffice you. If riches come by theft, They will not stay the night with you…. They made themselves wings like geese, And flew away to the sky.

Amenemope

1075 BC

★ 1.9

The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth.

Libosus of Vaga

Augustine of Hippo, On Baptism, Against the Donatists · 400

★ 1.9

Personal journal

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

1962

★ 1.9

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.