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" Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. "

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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. "

" Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. "

" 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. "

" It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. "

" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "

" The future is made of the same stuff as the present. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. "

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

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

" More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. "

" Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. "

" The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "