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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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