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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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What is vanity but the longing to survive?
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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