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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 great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- 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…
- One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
- It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the…
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- 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…
- In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
- If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
- It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
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