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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. "

" A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. "

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

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

" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "

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

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

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

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

" To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

" Humility is attentive patience. "

" 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 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. "

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