Quote #193

The Church has been so harsh with heretics only because she deemed that there is no worse enemy than a child who has gone astray. But the record of Gnostic effronteries and the persistence of Manichean currents have contributed more to the construction of orthodox dogma than all the prayers.

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  1. The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world.
  2. The contrary of a civilized nation is a creative nation.
  3. The age of enlightenment, as people say, wanted to suppress the death penalty on the pretext that man was naturally good. Of course he is n…
  4. The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
  5. Temporal idols demanding an absolute faith tirelessly decree absolute punishments.
  6. The divine availability of the condemned man before whom the prison doors open in a certain early dawn, that unbelievable disinterestedness…
  7. Suffering is never provisional for the man who does not believe in the future.
  8. The doctrines of evolution and the notions of selection that accompany them have made of the future of society a final end. The political u…

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