Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
“What a consolation will it be to the just, to have the secrets of their hearts finally revealed!”
On the Last Day
Context: What a consolation will it be to the just, to have the secrets of their hearts finally revealed! Their perfections were concealed from men in this world. They were known to God alone. They were unknown even to themselves; for humility had concealed from their view the beauty and innocence of their interior, and had displayed before their eyes only the few blemishes and imperfections to which human nature is unavoidably exposed. But now the veil shall be withdrawn, and their secret storehouse of merits shall be thrown open to the inspection of all. With what astonishment will the great assembly of the sons of men behold the triumphs of these humble servants of God! their hitherto concealed victories over the world, the flesh, and the Devil…
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246.
Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Boston, Massachusetts (27 August 1880): published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light" in American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, vol. XX, n°118 (October 1880), pp. 305-324.
“Respect is one of the most elegant and cultural choices a human being can make.”
Original: (it) Il rispetto è una delle scelte più eleganti e culturali che un essere umano possa fare.
Source: prevale.net
"On Infant Baptism," Large Catechism (1529)
