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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020