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Two forces rule the universe:...

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

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There is nothing that comes c...

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

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We possess nothing in the wor...

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

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The authentic and pure values...

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

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The full expression of person...

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

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Official history is believing...

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

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Whenever a human being, throu...

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

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The Our Father contains all p...

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

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All the Freudian system is im...

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

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The Great Beast is the only o...

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

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One does not play Bach withou...

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

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The notion of obligations com...

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

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The proper method of philosop...

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

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The feeding of those that are...

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

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All the goods of this world.....

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

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Because no other could do it,...

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

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Love consents to all and comm...

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

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There are only two sorts of g...

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

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When literature becomes delib...

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

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If it were conceivable that i...

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

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