Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEILA 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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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