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" We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

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

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" I can, therefore I am. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. "

" 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. "

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

" Humility is attentive patience. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. "

" We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. "