“The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.”
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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.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.