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But this grain of matter, where was it? It was in God’s bosom, as it is at present.
April 29.
Philosophers, heads of sects, heads of orders. Equally necessary to three different kinds of minds, set apart from the others by a singularity of character and temper that is indestructible in them and recurs in every century.—To the first three kinds of teachers add the heads of confraternities, who also have their usefulness for...
“I am willing,” he said, “to have my food cut into pieces for me, but I do not want it chewed for me.”
It is a blown drop of water, a flattened grain of metal.
“Give wine to those who have bitterness in their soul.” This people equally fatal to its friends and its enemies.
May 22.
If someone gives you a stick, return a bundle of sticks.
Sunday, May 28.
Bold in asking of men. Sign of their destiny. Grown, they will refuse nothing.
June 1.
Thought is no greater a marvel than vision. Perhaps it requires no purer immateriality either. Both take place through representations formed in inner mirrors, where our inward sight is ceaselessly occupied in looking.
June 3.
Think of the ills from which you are free.
June …6.
By constantly placing matter before our eyes, they prevent us from seeing him. In vain they extol the worker by displaying the wonders of his work to us. The mass obscures. The object distracts, and the goal, constantly pointed out, is constantly impossible to see.
To say sacrifice, then, is to say deprivation, renunciation, abandonment, destitution for heaven’s sake. A pagan slaughtered an ox. He sacrificed that portion of his fortune. A Christian shuns the woman who pleases him and who is not his own. He sacrifices.
Tuesday, June 14.
Such ideas need not be true; it is enough that they make us more religious. Since it is not evident that they are false, it is sound philosophy to admit them solely because they are fitted to fulfill their purpose, which is not to make us learned (in matters where one cannot be) but to make us pious. It is not conclusions that we seek from such arguments. We seek feelings as the entire consequence, and if the premises are fitted to bring them about, then we have proceeded well and as correctly as a geometer who has deduced a corollary from an axiom.