Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
It is impossible to exist without passion
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
Where there are two people, there is untruth.
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
Men who not religious or artists are fools.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
... all comparisons injure.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.
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