Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Equality 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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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