"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

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"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

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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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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"Solitude is the place of purification."

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"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."

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"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."

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"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."

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"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."

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"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

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"Play is the exultation of the possible."

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"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."

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"To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin."

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