11 quotes found
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
“Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...”
“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.”
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; ...”
“It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a ...”
“But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic fli...”
“For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark secrets. A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of th...”
“He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.”
