Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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