| |  | | | | | | | | | | | We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. | | Uncategorized | | | We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. | | Uncategorized | | | We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. | | Uncategorized | | | Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin | | Uncategorized | | | What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe | | Uncategorized | | | What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. | | Uncategorized | | | What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything | | Nature | | | When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point. | | Uncategorized | | | When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then? | | Life | | | | | When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man | | Uncategorized | | | When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. | | Uncategorized | | | When we see a natural style, we are quite surprised and delighted, for we expected to see an author and we find a man. | | Uncategorized | | | Who would desire to have for a friend a man who talks in this fashion? Who would choose him out from others to tell him of his affairs? Who would have recourse to him in affliction? And indeed to what use in life could one put him? | | Uncategorized | | | Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair. | | Christianity; Religion | | | Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect | | Words | | | You always admire what you really don't understand. | | Admiration | | | | | | | |
