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We are made to know and love God.


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I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.



As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.



Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.



Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.



God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.



You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.



I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.



Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.



One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.



We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.





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