“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Truth“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Truth“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Truth“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
Death“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
Business“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
Power“Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”
Religion“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
Experience“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Men“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
Men“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
Faith“Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
Faith“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”
God“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
God“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Men“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
Good“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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Men“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”
Faith“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”
Change“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
Nature“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
Men