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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.