The future is made up of the same stuff as the present.
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.Simone Weil
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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