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

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

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Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

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One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

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There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

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

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Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

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