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Just as a person who is always...

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

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We should do only those righte...

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing ...

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prayer consists of attention. ...

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

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It may be that vice, depravity...

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

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The whole of our civilization ...

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ...

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The whole evolution of present...

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

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The speed with which bureaucra...

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

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The glossy surface of our civi...

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

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Justice consists in seeing tha...

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

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Compassion directed to oneself...

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

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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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The contradictions the mind co...

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

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Everybody knows that really in...

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

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The notion of obligations come...

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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What is surprising is not that...

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

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Academic work is one of those ...

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

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In this world we live in a mix...

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

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Modern life is given over to i...

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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We must love all facts, not fo...

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

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If we forgive God for his crim...

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

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