The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
SIMONE WEILIt is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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