Never cut what you can untie.
“Never cut what you can untie.”
— Joseph Joubert · Wisdom
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Never cut what you can untie.
“Never cut what you can untie.”
— Joseph Joubert · Wisdom
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“Never cut what you can untie.”
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
“The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.”
“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”
“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,”
“و ميز كلامك قبل الكلام… فإن لكل كلام جواب”
“The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.”
“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.”
“As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.”
“It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.”