Bossuet's Quotes

#1. Hen Maistre adopts Bossuet's bold idea that "the heretic is he who has personal
ideas" - in other words, ideas that have no reference to either a social or a religious tradition - he provides
the formula for the most ancient and the most modern of conformities.

Albert Camus

#2. Every error is truth abused.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#3. Any one episode, or even moment, in a person's life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we've found of approaching that kind of complexity.

Ben Fountain

#4. Even if you feel wronged, respond right.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

#5. The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity
the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#6. The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#7. Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon
that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages
have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

Luc De Clapiers

#8. The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#9. Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#10. The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#11. An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#12. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important." "You

Alexandre Dumas

#13. I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.

Curtis Jackson

#14. In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#15. O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#16. The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

Annie Besant

#17. My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

Charlene Tilton

#18. The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground,

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#19. I sure love to dance."
"No."
"Don't you love to dance with me?"
"What a talent you have for asking loaded questions.

Thea Harrison

#20. Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.

Jean-Baptiste Chautard

#21. For some reason our lives were marked by summers ... Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

Ann Brashares

#22. Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#23. I always remember liking school.

Damon Lindelof

#24. To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#25. The world itself makes us sick of the world.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#26. When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

Barbara Kingsolver

#27. It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

Stephen Leacock

#28. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#29. Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#30. Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#31. The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

Alexander Hamilton

#32. Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#33. Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet