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"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Truth
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
Wisdom
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
Wisdom
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."
Spiritual
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
Justice
"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
Wisdom
"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
Wisdom
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
Wisdom
"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."
Wisdom
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
Philosophy
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