Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changeswe see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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The absurd ... the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
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