33 quotes found
“Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.”
“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.”
“Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.”
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”
“All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.”
“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men f...”
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“The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes ...”
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are...”
“No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin none of the philosophical sects has admitted it none therefore has spoken the truth ”
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour...”
“He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same, nor is he. He was young, and she also; she is quite different. He would perhaps love her ye...”
“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. ”
“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”
“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 Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him ...”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
