D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

Man follows only phantoms.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal.

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

There's always some further action to take.

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.

I would not like a king who could obey.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something.

You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.