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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. "

" A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "

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

" The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. "

" In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. "

" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "

" 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. "

" It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. "

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. "

" The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. "

" 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. "

" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "

" 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. "

" The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. "

" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "

" When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. "

" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "

" 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. "

" Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. "