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? |
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? |
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject. |
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. |
Console thyself, thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou hadst not found Me |
Continued eloquence is wearisome |
Continuous eloquence wearies |
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. |
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. |
Descartes useless and uncertain. |
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. |
Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up |
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself |
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. |
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell. |