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A Philosopher (n.) doesn't care for philosophy.
God (n.) is perceived by the heart and not the reason.
God (n.) is complicated - There is a great difference between knowing God and loving Him.
God (n.) is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
God (n.) is not merely the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements, but a God of love and consolation.
God (n.) is not the conclusion to a rational argument, but rather an intensely passionate God, who, when he comes into relationship with people.
God (n.) is or if he is, the rational man must wager that he does, for if one gains, you gains all... if one loses, one loses nothing.
God (n.) is proved not only by the zeal of those who seek Him but also by the blindness of those who seek Him not.
God (n.) is so great that human minds are incapable of fathoming God.
God (n.) does not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
God (n.) has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.
God (n.) is the God of the infinitesimal.
Justice (n.) is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
Justice (n.) is powerless without force. Force without justice, on the other hand, is tyrannical.
Justice (n.) is what is established... and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Justice (n.) is powerless without force, just as force is tyrannical without justice.
Chess (n.) is the gymnasium of the mind.
Habit (n.) is the second nature which destroys the first.
The Heart (n.) is a God-shaped vacuum.
The Heart (n.) is a thing having reasons which reason knows nothing of. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart..
The Heart (n.) is that through which we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.
The Heart (n.) is the moral sense, an organ of perception, analogous to hearing or seeing.
The Heart (n.) perceives God and not the reason.
Painting (n.) is a vain enterprise in that it excites admiration by reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
Appearance (n.) is often a domain in which it is revealed that we are not satisfied with real life... we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
Tyranny (n.) is the wish to obtain by one means what can only be had by another.
Tyranny (n.) is any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes.
Tyranny (n.) is desire of universal power beyond its scope.
The Fly (n.) is so mighty that it wins battles, paralyses our minds, eats up our bodies.