If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Faith is a gift of God.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
True eloquence scorns eloquence.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
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