But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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