“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.”
Truth“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
God“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.”
Truth“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”
Great“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
Patriotism“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”
Faith“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
Time“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”
Men“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”
Faith“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
Men“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Truth“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
God“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
Faith“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Men“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”
Faith“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Men“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”
Art“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
Business“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
God“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”
Sports“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Valentinesday“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Nature