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- To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
- I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
- If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe,…
- If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by…
- To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so…
- Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers…
- The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves;…
- When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was…
- There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former…
- Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme.…
- That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told…
- If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
- Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
- We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
- The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
- When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
- People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
- Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when…
- If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the…
- I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
- Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the…
- Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
- The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of…
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