Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.
The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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