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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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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God Love Ourselves Reason
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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

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