If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
The property of power is to protect.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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