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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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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