Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved.….

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action..

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a mea….

Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; ….

O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all,….

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect..

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himse….

And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other ….

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth..

In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good inte….

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a….

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth..

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth..

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than….

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth..

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buf….

I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency….

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth..

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning..

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have….