“Let us not believe that our soul is a portion of the divine nature, as some philosophers have dreamed. God is not a whole that can be shared out.”— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Discourse on Universal History (1681), Part II, ch. IShare
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”— Jacques-Bénigne BossuetShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”— Albert EinsteinShare
