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- The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act…
- Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
- The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.…
- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
- At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in…
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
- All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and…
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- 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…
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,…
- Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
- The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
- All sins are attempts to fill voids.
- The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- 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…
- 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…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes