It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the 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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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