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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
Instead of wondering why this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to you.
Since it is reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.
The smallest accident intervening often produces such changes that a wise man is just as much in doubt of events as the most ignorant and unexperienced.
Objects exist and, if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.