 Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. |
| Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. |
| It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. |
| How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. |
| As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. |
| Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. |
| Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. |
| Wonder is the desire for knowledge. |
| The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. |
| If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. |
| To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. |
| By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. |
| All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. |
| It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. |
| Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. |
| Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. |
| Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. |
| Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. |
| It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. |
| We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. |
