To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
From Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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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