Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real i
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In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (per
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We can only know one thing about God--that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contempl
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of
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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at leas
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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability t
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It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is st
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The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any considerati
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negli
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