A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. |
A trifle consoles us because a trifle distresses us. |
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room |
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. |
All of man's troubles, |
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling |
All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true. |
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? |
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. |
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. |
Atheists ought to say what is perfectly evident; now it is not perfectly evident that the soul is material. |
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. |
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. |
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. |
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden |