Volume I, Book I,Chapter XIV
"Love each other; he declared this to be
complete, desired nothing further, and that was the whole
of his doctrine."
Volume I, Book II, Chapter IV
"The supreme
happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved;
loved for one’s own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of
one’s self".
Volume II, Book VII, Chapter V
"At the same time that there is an infinite without us,
is there not an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming plural!) superposed, the one upon
the other? Is not this second infinite, so to speak, subjacent
to the first? Is it not the latter’s mirror, reflection, echo, an
abyss which is concentric with another abyss?"
Volume II, Book VII, Chapter VI
"There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified,
which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a
fine blind man’s self-sufficiency."
"Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
What is this ideal? It is God.
Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words."
Volume IV, Book V, Chapter IV: A Heart Beneath a Stone
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love. "
" Oh! how true it is that the beloved being
becomes God."
"God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to
render that being transparent."
"Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill
eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite."
"All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings.
We lack air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love
is horrible. Suffocation of the soul"
"Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child of him!
"Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it."
"Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise."
"Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny.
"Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies,
forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again."
Volume V, Book IX, Chapter V
"Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that
in the world: love for each other."
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