Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Men who not religious or artists are fools.
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.
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.
... all comparisons injure.
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.
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?
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.
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.
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility
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.
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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.
Where there are two people, there is untruth.
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.
A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
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