"The most dangerous of our calculations are those……" — Georges Bernanos

"The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions."

40 Quotes by Georges Bernanos

Georges Bernanos has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from…
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go…
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let…

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