True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
SIMONE WEILEquality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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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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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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