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SECTION I: THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE
1. The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind.In the one, the principles are palpable, but removed from ordinary use; so that for want of habit it is difficult to turn one's mind in that direction: but if one turns it thither ever so ... read more
SECTION II: THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD
60. First part: Misery of man without God.
Second part: Happiness of man with God.
Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself.
Second part: That there is a Redeemer. Proved by Scripture.
61. Order.I might well have taken ... read more
SECTION III: OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER
184. A letter to incite to the search after God.
And then to make people seek Him among the philosophers, sceptics, and dogmatists, who disquiet him who inquires of them.
185. The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion in ... read more
SECTION IV: OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF
242. Preface to the second part.To speak of those who have treated of this matter.
I admire the boldness with which these persons undertake to speak of God. In addressing their argument to infidels, their first chapter is to prove Divinity from the wo ... read more
SECTION IX: PERPETUITY
589. On the fact that the Christian religion is not the only religion.So far is this from being a reason for believing that it is not the true one that, on the contrary, it makes us see that it is so.
590. Men must be sincere in all religions; true he ... read more
SECTION V: JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
291. In the letter On Injustice can come the ridiculousness of the law that the elder gets all. "My friend, you were born on this side of the mountain, it is therefore just that your elder brother gets everything."
"Why do you kill me"?
292. He ... read more
SECTION VI: THE PHILOSOPHERS
339. I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head (for it is only experience which teaches us that the head is more necessary than feet). But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
340. The arithmetical machine pr ... read more
SECTION VII: MORALITY AND DOCTRINE
425. Second part.That man without faith cannot know the true good, nor justice.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding ... read more
SECTION VIII: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
556.... Men blaspheme what they do not know. The Christian religion consists in two points. It is of equal concern to men to know them, and it is equally dangerous to be ignorant of them. And it is equally of God's mercy that He has given indications of ... read more
SECTION X: TYPOLOGY
642. Proof of the two Testaments at once.To prove the two at one stroke, we need only see if the prophecies in one are fulfilled in the other. To examine the prophecies, we must understand them. For if we believe they have only one meaning, it is certain ... read more
SECTION XI: THE PROPHECIES
693. When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe and man without light, left to himself and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come to do, ... read more
SECTION XII: PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
737. Therefore I reject all other religions. In that way I find an answer to all objections. It is right that a God so pure should only reveal Himself to those whose hearts are purified. Hence this religion is lovable to me, and I find it now sufficiently ... read more
SECTION XIII: THE MIRACLES
803. The beginning.Miracles enable us to judge of doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge of miracles.
There are false miracles and true. There must be a distinction, in order to know them; otherwise they would be useless. Now they are not useless; ... read more
SECTION XIV: APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS
857. Clearness, obscurity.There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. This is a wonderful one, that it has always been preserved in one Church and one visible assembly of men. There would be too great clearness, if there were only ... read more
The Greatness of Man
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. It is then miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable. All these same miseries prove man's greatness. They are the miseries o ... read more
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