“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”
“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”
"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
"If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?"
"The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."
"When the passions become masters, they are vices"
"How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired."
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
"We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything."
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
Well, dear readers, what are your thoughts on his thoughts? Any of these strike a chord with you? Anything you’d like to see me elaborate on in a post? Please comment.