When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame,...

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame,...

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing...

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are...

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are...

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends...

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends...

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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...

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who...

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who...

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves,...

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves,...

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...

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to...

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to...

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...

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

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

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

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The...

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The...

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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...

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in...

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in...

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.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be...

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be...