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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

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But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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