The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.
The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.
She satisfies my ideal. Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be love at first sight is often the fulfillment of a desire and the realization of a drea...
Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.
Just as there are those who believe we should change morality to suit our amorality, so there are those who believe we should change God to suit our godlessness.
In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.
If then Death was the supreme moment for which Christ lived, it was therefore the one thing He wished to have remembered. He did not ask that men should write down His Words into a Scripture; He did n...
If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.
Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love.
He often chooses weak instruments in order that His power might be manifested; otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit.
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up...
As the no of Eve proves that the creature was made by love and is therefore free, so thy Fiat proves that the Creature was made for love as well.
As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God’s love and tempe...
Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted t...
Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.
There has sprung up a disturbing indifference to truth, and a tendency to regard the useful as the true, and the impractical as the false. The man who can make up his mind when proofs are presented to...