Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
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.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
The property of power is to protect.
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
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