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 ….

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

Logic has made me hated in the world..

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….

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….

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

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

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease..

Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the….

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts..

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth..

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

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful th….

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; ….

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..

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….

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….

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 purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself..

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….