Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
It is a lot nicer to know something of everything, that everything on a single matter.
The wiser man is not he who knows, but he who knows he doesn't know.
One must begin pitying unbelievers; they are wretched enough by their condition. We ought only to revile them where it is beneficial; but this does them harm.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
We shouldn't be worried by our past because we can only regret our mistakes. However, we should be worried even less by the future because it doesn't depend on us and maybe we will never reach it. The preent is the only time really ours...
However, the world is so restlss that we are never thinking about the present and the moment that we are living, but always about the one that we'll live.
In this world we are always busy living the future and never living now.
The first effect of love is to inspire a profound respect; we have veneration for what we love. It is very just; we see nothing in the world so great as this.
Contradictions.
Infinite wisdom and wisdom of Religion.