“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
Thanksgiving“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”
God“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
Thanksgiving“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
Art“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Education“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.”
Beauty“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
God“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
Work“I'm religiously opposed to religion.”
Religion“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”
Age“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Smile“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
Poetry“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
God“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
Great“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
Men“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
God“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
Smile“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Architecture“To love beauty is to see light.”
Beauty“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
Truth“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
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