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"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
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"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
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"By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
People
"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Being
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
Rights
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
Nothing
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
Man
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
Creativity
"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 is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
Imagination
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
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