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

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

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

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

" Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "

" Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

" It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. "

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

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

" 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. "