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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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