Men blaspheme what they do not know.
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What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object - that is, God, Himself. He alone is man's veritable good, and since man has deserted Him it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature that has not been capable of taking His place for man stars, sky, earth, elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, plague, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since he has lost the true good, everything can equally appear to him as such - even his own destruction, though that is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.
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Man is but a reed, the most weak in nature, but he is a thinking reed
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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