All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.