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" A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "
Purpose
False
Only
" A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. "
Hurtful
Bear
Others
" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "
Sins
Attempts
Fill
" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "
Prison
Mind
Language
" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "
Atheist
Whose
May
" A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. "
God
Worthless
Us
" A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. "
Anything
Including
Ready
" As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. "
Smiles
Without
Fear
" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "
Joys
Pleasure
Real
" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "
Illusions
Great
Reality
" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "
Promises
Never
Gives
" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "
God
Love
Nothing
" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "
Who
Culture
More
" Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. "
Compassion
Him
Know
" 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. "
Equality
Attention
Recognition
" Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. "
Every
Perfect
Life Is A
" Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. "
Envy
Time
Think
" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "
Knowledge
Evil
Root
" Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. "
Felt
Even
Duty
" Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. "
Who
Truth
Nobody
" 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. "
Meeting
Separation
Two
" Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. "
Nothing
Understand
Person
" 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. "
Grace
Beauty
Wrong
" Humility is attentive patience. "
Humility
Attentive
Patience
" I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. "
Without
Thought
Roots
" I can, therefore I am. "
Am
I Am
I Can
" If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. "
Future
Thanks
She
" 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. "
Know
Think
Suffering
" Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. "
Up
Three
Life
" Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. "
Imagination
Life
Influence
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