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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."
God,
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"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
"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
Life
"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
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
"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
"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
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work
"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
Education
"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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