Verum Insights...

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

Logic has made me hated in the world.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency, which upon other occasions have some power over me, are here useless. The Gospel is a language I do not understand when it opposes my passion... but when love has once been sincere how difficult it is to determine to love no more! 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.