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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. - Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. – Simone Weil

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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 contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

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alone
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil

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War
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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Society
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka

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Beauty

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. – Howard Lindsay

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Beauty

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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Beauty

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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Beauty

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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom weve learned and create something. – Liz Carpenter

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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. – Sallust

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. – Albert Einstein

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