Nature diversifies and imitates; art imitates and diversifies. |
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. |
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. |
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere |
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed |
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. |
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. |
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. |
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. |
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better. |
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better. |
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. |
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death. |
People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an |
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. |