Quotes about t
true-love baby generous-love
The more you give, the more you live. Blake Mycoskie
teaching eloquence tedious
Continuous eloquence is tedious. Blaise Pascal
time learning letters
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
truth moon men
When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.
truth mathematics contradicting
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
time believe numbers
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
truth ideas invincible
We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
truth darkness would-be
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
truth believe men
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
thinking past ifs
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
taken ignorance sadness
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
two principles mysterious
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
talking judging people
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
thinking limits ends
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
thinking way impossible
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
truth men errors
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
truth heart trying
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
truth men opinion
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.
thinking men judging
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
time passion years
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
time morality morale
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.
truth pride men
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
time long worry
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
thinking principles dignity
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
true-love believe mind
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
thinking years mind
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
thinking law justice
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.
truth distance light
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.
thoughtful men thinking
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
thoughtful thinking portraits
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
two religion moses
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?
truth-and-falsehood knows falsehood
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
thinking littles too-much
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.