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| The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason | | Uncategorized | |
| The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. | | Uncategorized | |
| The only shame is to have none | | Shame | |
| The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries. | | Uncategorized | |
| The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing | | Men; Power; Virtue | |
| The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. | | Happiness; Past; The Present; Time | |
| The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. | | Uncategorized | |
| The property of power is to protect. | | Power | |
| The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. | | Uncategorized | |
| The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room | | Uncategorized | |
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| The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. | | Problems | |
| The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason | | Reason | |
| The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences. | | Ethics; Ignorance; Physics; Science | |
| There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are two types of minds - the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the dive | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus | | God | |
