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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…
- It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one…
- The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit…
- To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at…
- 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…
- The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
- When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
- 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…
- Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to…
- The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
- If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it…
- The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
- I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
- 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…
- If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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