“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Valentinesday“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
Power“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Valentinesday“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
Beauty“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
Faith“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”
Faith“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
Nature“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
Nature“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
Experience“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Nature“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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
Truth“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
Imagination“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
Truth“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Men“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
Men“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
Time“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
Nature“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Men“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
Men“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.”
Truth“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
Death