philosophy
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.”
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead.”
“I am not my soul.”
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“Metaphysics is born of the sense of wonder.”
“The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.”
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”
“The essential self knows that it lives for ever.”
“When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept.”
“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.”
“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
“The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.”
“The real sin — perhaps it is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no remission — is the sin of heresy, the sin of thinking for oneself.”
“May we not imagine that possibly this earthly life of ours is to the other life what sleeping is to waking? May not all our life be a dream and death an awakening?”