Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Beauty • Creativity • Happiness
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Ethics • Justice • Politics
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Philosophy • Reason
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Death • Life • Movement
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Behavior • Character • Habits
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Death • Desire • Fame
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Intuition • Knowledge • Reason
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Equality • Fairness • Government
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Humility • Modesty • Virtue
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Faith • Gifts • God
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Fear • Religion
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.
Happiness • Ignorance • Mortality
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Existence • Human • Intelligence
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Knowledge • Morality • Science
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Love • Perception
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Beliefs • Faith • Light
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Faith • God • Perception
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Curiosity • Education • Exploration
