The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal...

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal...

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like...

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation...

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation...

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent...

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent...

Pain is the root of knowledge

Pain is the root of knowledge

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the...

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the...

I can, therefore I am.

I can, therefore I am.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to...

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to...

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its...

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its...

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and...

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and...

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from...

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from...

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on...

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on...

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will...

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will...