Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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