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Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.
If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.
For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.
What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.
What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.