Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
Philosophy is really homesickness.
People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.