“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
