Justice Is Charity In Accordance With Wisdom.

The Greatness Of A Life Can Only Be Estimated By The Multitude Of Its Actions. We Should Not Count The Years, It Is Our Actions Which Constitute Our Life.

I Have Seen Something Of The Project Of M. De St. Pierre, For Maintaining A Perpetual Peace In Europe. I Am Reminded Of A Device In A Cemetery, With The Words: Pax Perpetua ; For The Dead Do Not Fight Any Longer: But The Living Are Of Another Humor; And The Most Powerful Do Not Respect Tribunals At All.

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.

Men Act Like Brutes In So Far As The Sequences Of Their Perceptions Arise Through The Principle Of Memory Only, Like Those Empirical Physicians Who Have Mere Practice Without Theory.

If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put Into Someone's Brain While She Was Thinking, We Would See All The Pumps, Pistons, Gears And Levers Working Away And We Would Be Able To Describe The Workings Completely, In Mechanical Terms, Thereby Completely Describing The Thought Processes Of The Brain. But That Description Would Not Contain Any Mention Of Thought! It Would Contain Nothing But Descriptions Of Pumps, Pistons, Levers!