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- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
- The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is…
- At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by…
- 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…
- The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
- Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as…
- The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.
- 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…
- There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not…
- 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…
- We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness…
- Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection,…
- Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for…
- Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection…
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