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1 " The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine. "
― Blaise Pascal , The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
2 " The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. "
3 " People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted. "
4 " The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. "
5 " For after all, what is man in creation? Is he not a mere cipher compared with the infinite, a whole compared to the nothing, a mean between zero & all, infinitely remote from understanding of either extreme? Who can follow these astonishing processes? The Author of these wonders understands them, but no one else can. "
6 " If the foot had never realized it belonged to the body, & that there never was a body on which it depended, if it had only known & loved itself & then came to know that it really belonged to the body on which it depended, think of the regret & shame it would feel for its past existence. It would recognize how useless it had been to the body in spite of the life poured into it, & how it would have been destroyed if the body had rejected it & cut it off as the foot cut itself off from the body! How it would have desired earnestly to be kept on! How obediently it would let itself be governed by the will in charge of the body, to the point of being amputated if necessary! Otherwise it would cease to a member, for every member must be ready to perish for the sake of the whole, for whose sake alone exists. "
7 " It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change. "
