“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”
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“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
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