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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Simone Weil

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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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God Love Ourselves Reason
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
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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Choices Direction God World Worship
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble

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