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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Simone Weil

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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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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

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