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" A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. "

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" 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. "

" With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. "

" Humility is attentive patience. "

" Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. "

" To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. "

" 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. "

" Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. "

" Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. "

" The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. "

" To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. "

" In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. "

" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "

" 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. "

" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

" The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. "

" To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. "

" 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. "

" When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. "

" 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. "

" One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. "

" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "

" There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. "

" Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. "

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" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "

" 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. "