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Gravity and Grace
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
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Time is an image of eternity, but it is also a substitute for eternity.
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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
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Science only offers three kinds of interest: 1. Technical applications. 2. A game of chess. 3. A road to God. (Attractions are added to the game of chess in the shape of competitions, prizes, and medals.)
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Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.
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Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.
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Science today will either have to seek a source of inspiration higher than itself or perish.
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We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, I am suffering, than to say, This landscape is ugly.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
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But we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of the conquerors'.
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You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring, real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. "Imaginative literature," therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both.
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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
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Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
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The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Born:
February 3, 1909
Died:
August 24, 1943
(aged 34)
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