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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
It 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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World

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