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1 I, 5 | imagination. They do not know that I judge by my watch.~
2 I, 6 | then, all-important to know how to choose in order to
3 I, 14 | before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined
4 I, 16 | the heart of man so as to know all its powers and, then,
5 I, 18 | 18. When we do not know the truth of a thing, it
6 I, 18 | says that, when we do not know the truth of a thing, it
7 I, 33 | and the reason is that we know well what is the object
8 I, 33 | in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists,
9 I, 33 | object of poetry. We do not know the natural model which
10 I, 33 | he will smile; because we know better wherein consists
11 I, 37 | cannot be universal and know all that is to be known
12 I, 37 | everything, we ought to know a little about everything.
13 I, 37 | For it is far better to know something about everything
14 I, 37 | about everything than to know all about one thing. This
15 II, 61 | would not have been kept. I know a little what it is, and
16 II, 66 | 66. One must know oneself. If this does not
17 II, 68 | the one thing they do not know.~
18 II, 72 | persons have pretended to know all things. "I will speak
19 II, 72 | much truth is paralysing (I know some who cannot understand
20 II, 72 | further. How can a part know the whole? But he may perhaps
21 II, 72 | he may perhaps aspire to know at least the parts to which
22 II, 72 | believe it impossible to know one without the other and
23 II, 72 | alliance with everything. To know man, then, it is necessary
24 II, 72 | then, it is necessary to know how it happens that he needs
25 II, 72 | needs air to live, and, to know the air, we must know how
26 II, 72 | to know the air, we must know how it is thus related to
27 II, 72 | it equally impossible to know the parts without knowing
28 II, 72 | knowing the whole and to know the whole without knowing
29 II, 72 | to imagine how it should know itself.~So, if we are simply
30 II, 72 | simply material, we can know nothing at all; and if we
31 II, 72 | mind and matter, we cannot know perfectly things which are
32 II, 73(8) | Happy is he who is able to know the causes of things." ~
33 II, 73 | perhaps at least the soul will know itself. Let us hear the
34 II, 82 | Italian work, of which I only know the title, which alone is
35 II, 82 | judge in his own cause; I know some who, in order not to
36 II, 100 | but right that they should know us for what we are and should
37 II, 100 | us a service which they know to be disagreeable. They
38 II, 100 | Europe, and he alone will know nothing of it. I am not
39 II, 111 | proper order. Those who only know how to play on ordinary
40 II, 111 | barmonies on these. We must know where are.~
41 II, 139 | not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in
42 II, 139 | reply, because they do not know themselves. They do not
43 II, 139 | themselves. They do not know that it is the chase, and
44 II, 139 | order to prove that they know them; and these are the
45 II, 140 | mind. This man, born to know the universe, to judge all
46 II, 144 | is better for him not to know himself.?~
47 II, 152 | Most frequently we wish to know but to talk. Otherwise we
48 II, 162 | 162. He who will know fully the vanity of man
49 II, 175 | 175. We know ourselves so little that
50 III, 194 | one has ever done so. We know well enough how those who
51 III, 194 | to a reasonable man?~"I know not who put me into the
52 III, 194 | ignorance of everything. I know not what my body is, nor
53 III, 194 | and returns no more. All I know is that I must soon die,
54 III, 194 | must soon die, but what I know least is this very death
55 III, 194 | which I cannot escape.~"As I know not whence I come, so I
56 III, 194 | not whence I come, so I know not whither I go. I know
57 III, 194 | know not whither I go. I know only that, in leaving this
58 III, 194 | surprising, if we did not know that the greater part of
59 III, 194 | healthy view of things and who know that the only way to succeed
60 III, 194 | weakness of mind than not to know the misery of a godless
61 III, 194 | their heart because they know Him, and those who seek
62 III, 194 | heart because they do not know Him.~But as for those who
63 III, 195 | hidden, foundation. Thus they know not whether there be truth
64 III, 195 | seeking enlightenment. "I know not," they say...~
65 III, 205 | I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened
66 III, 207 | 207. How many kingdoms know us not!~
67 III, 218 | concerns all our life to know whether the soul be mortal
68 III, 226 | If you care but little to know the truth, here is enough
69 III, 226 | desire with all your heart to know it, it is not enough; look
70 III, 229 | of what I ought to do, I know neither my condition nor
71 III, 229 | heart inclines wholly to know where is the true good,
72 III, 231 | you impossible, make you know that there may be others
73 III, 231 | remains nothing for you to know; but rather that there remains
74 III, 231 | remains an infinity for you to know.~
75 III, 233 | mercy towards the elect.~We know that there is an infinite,
76 III, 233 | ignorant of its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers
77 III, 233 | in number. But we do not know what it is. It is false
78 III, 233 | number). So we may well know that there is a God without
79 III, 233 | not the truth itself?~We know then the existence and nature
80 III, 233 | finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite
81 III, 233 | not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor
82 III, 233 | limits.~But by faith we know His existence; in glory
83 III, 233 | existence; in glory we shall know His nature. Now, I have
84 III, 233 | already shown that we may well know the existence of a thing,
85 III, 233 | have made a choice; for you know nothing about it. "No, but
86 III, 233 | attain faith and do not know the way; you would like
87 III, 233 | possessions. These are people who know the way which you would
88 III, 233 | you and seems impressive, know that it is made by a man
89 IV, 248(35) | I know." "I believe." ~
90 IV, 266 | thousand and twenty-eight, we know it." There is grass on the
91 IV, 267 | does not see so far as to know this. But if natural things
92 IV, 268 | 268. Submission.—We must know where to doubt, where to
93 IV, 277 | reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand
94 IV, 282 | 282. We know truth, not only by the reason,
95 IV, 282 | in this last way that we know first principles; and reason,
96 IV, 282 | labour to no purpose. We know that we do not dream, and,
97 IV, 287 | of himself. But those who know the proofs of religion will
98 IV, 288 | haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.~Two kinds
99 IV, 288 | God.~Two kinds of persons know Him: those who have a humble
100 V, 325 | are laws; but we should know that there is neither truth
101 V, 325 | introduce into them, that we know nothing of these, and so
102 V, 327 | through all that men can know, find they know nothing,
103 V, 327 | men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again
104 VI, 364(61) | they do, to admit that I know not what I do not know." ~
105 VI, 364(61) | I know not what I do not know." ~
106 VI, 372 | thought; for I strive only to know my nothingness.~
107 VI, 375 | that I had that whereby to know and judge of it. But I have
108 VI, 376 | more evident in those who know it not than in those who
109 VI, 376 | it not than in those who know it.~
110 VI, 385 | homicide is wrong. Yes; for we know well the wrong and the false.
111 VI, 389 | and yet he can neither know, nor desire not to know.
112 VI, 389 | know, nor desire not to know. He cannot even doubt.~
113 VI, 392 | the affirmative, since we know that we often draw the same
114 VI, 397 | miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
115 VI, 397 | then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable;
116 VI, 397 | it is also being great to know that one is miserable.~
117 VI, 418 | his nature; but he must know both.~
118 VI, 423 | greatness of man.—Let man now know his value. Let him love
119 VII, 425 | man without faith cannot know the true good, nor justice.~
120 VII, 427 | 427. Man does not know in what rank to place himself.
121 VII, 430 | unable to do it. They neither know what is your true good,
122 VII, 430 | when they did not even know them? Your chief maladies
123 VII, 430 | capable of Him. For I would know how this animal, who knows
124 VII, 430 | God is that he does not know what he himself is, and,
125 VII, 430 | except that you cannot know of yourselves if they are
126 VII, 432 | before Jesus Christ did not know where they were, nor whether
127 VII, 433 | our nature. It ought to know its greatness and littleness,
128 VII, 434 | nor adhere to one of them.~Know then, proud man, what a
129 VII, 434 | reason, that we can truly know ourselves.~These foundations,
130 VII, 434 | authority of religion, make us know that there are two truths
131 VII, 443 | that religion only makes us know profoundly what we already
132 VII, 443 | profoundly what we already know in proportion to our light?~
133 VII, 448 | averse to virtue; he does not know why they cannot fly higher.~
134 VII, 449 | are in that state should know it, both those who are content
135 VII, 450 | 450. If we do not know ourselves to be full of
136 VII, 463 | admired of men and do not know their own corruption. If
137 VII, 476 | self, and if it came to know that it belonged to a body
138 VII, 479 | us from serving God if we know Him, or from seeking Him
139 VII, 479 | or from seeking Him if we know Him not. Now we are full
140 VII, 482 | to make beings who should know it, and who should compose
141 VII, 482 | to have intelligence to know it, and good-will to consent
142 VII, 483 | short, when it comes to know itself, it has returned,
143 VII, 489 | unable to worship what we know not, and to love any other
144 VII, 508 | he who doubts it does not know what a saint or a man is.~
145 VII, 509 | cry to a man who does not know himself, that he should
146 VII, 509 | say so to a man who does know himself!~
147 VII, 533 | character. Alba has named you, I know you no more (Corneille).
148 VII, 536 | ourselves only of God, whom we know to be true; and thus we
149 VII, 543 | known God by a mediator know their own wretchedness.~
150 VII, 547 | 547. We know God only by Jesus Christ.
151 VII, 547 | through Jesus Christ we know God. All those who have
152 VII, 547 | those who have claimed to know God, and to prove Him without
153 VII, 547 | then, and through Him, we know God. Apart from Him, and
154 VII, 547 | true God of men.~But we know at the same time our wretchedness;
155 VII, 547 | wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our
156 VII, 548 | 548. Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone,
157 VII, 548 | Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus
158 VII, 548 | only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through
159 VII, 548 | Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our
160 VII, 548 | alone for its object, we know nothing, and see only darkness
161 VII, 549 | impossible but useless to know God without Jesus Christ.
162 VII, 553 | His suffering, but even to know of it; He and Heaven were
163 VII, 553 | expiation of them, thou wilt know them, and it will be said
164 VIII, 556 | blaspheme what they do not know. The Christian religion
165 VIII, 556 | equal concern to men to know them, and it is equally
166 VIII, 556 | there is a God whom men can know, and that there is a corruption
167 VIII, 556 | equally important to men to know both these points; and it
168 VIII, 556 | equally dangerous for man to know God without knowing his
169 VIII, 556 | own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without
170 VIII, 556 | despair of atheists, who know their own wretchedness,
171 VIII, 556 | alike necessary to man to know these two points, so is
172 VIII, 556 | merciful of God to have made us know them. The Christian religion
173 VIII, 556 | that of God. But we cannot know Jesus Christ without knowing
174 VIII, 556 | alone who knows his nature know it only to be miserable?
175 VIII, 556 | but he must see enough to know that he has lost it. For
176 VIII, 556 | that he has lost it. For to know of his loss, he must see
177 VIII, 559 | the unworthiness of men to know Him; but His occasional,
178 VIII, 560 | that we are concerned to know is that we are miserable,
179 VIII, 571 | say. The righteous shall know them, for the ways of God
180 VIII, 573 | says that we shall not know whence Christ will come (
181 VIII, 583 | feeble-minded are people who know the truth, but only affirm
182 VIII, 586 | equally dangerous to man to know God without knowing his
183 VIII, 586 | own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without
184 IX, 608 | and heathens. The heathens know not God, and love the world
185 IX, 608 | the world only. The Jews know the true God, and love the
186 IX, 608 | world only. The Christians know the true God, and love not
187 IX, 608 | good. Jews and Christians know the same God.~The Jews were
188 IX, 621 | learn a fact so necessary to know, and which could only be
189 IX, 627 | of it, it is necessary to know it, and each one knows it
190 X, 641 | whole problem then is to know if they have two meanings.~
191 X, 642(116) | 10, 11. "But that ye may know that the son of man hath
192 X, 653 | after the death of Jesus. "I know not," as a man, or as an
193 X, 674 | the very Messiah whom they know not, etc.~He has, then,
194 X, 674(127) | Mark 2:10, 11. "That ye may know... I say unto thee: Arise." ~
195 X, 675 | to understand them and to know Jesus Christ, when they
196 X, 677 | excludes absence and pain.~To know if the law and the sacrifices
197 X, 679 | be thought nonsense.~To know if the prophets confined
198 X, 681 | that is to say, Who can know all its evil? For it is
199 X, 681(130) | desperately wicked: who can know it?" ~
200 XI, 697 | proofs only to those who know and believe them.~Joseph
201 XI, 710 | admirable resolution: "I know it well, my son; but Ephraim
202 XI, 712 | come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: we will
203 XI, 712 | come.~"By this we shall know that ye are gods. Yea, do
204 XI, 712 | the beginning that we may know of the things done from
205 XI, 712 | have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand
206 XI, 712 | spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way
207 XI, 712 | former things of old, and know there is none like me, declaring
208 XI, 712 | came to pass. Because I know that thou art obstinate,
209 XI, 712 | things, and thou didst not know them. They are created now,
210 XI, 712 | from us."~Is. 66:18: "But I know their works and their thoughts;
211 XI, 715 | long since that they might know that it is I." Jaddus to
212 XI, 721 | grace shall come for ever.)~"Know therefore, and understand,
213 XI, 725 | thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for
214 XI, 725 | enemies; and all flesh shall know that I am the Lord, thy
215 XI, 725 | the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season
216 XII, 740(146) | Job 19:23-25. "for I know that my redeemer liveth." ~
217 XII, 774 | and tradition in order to know when to do so, since there
218 XII, 799 | in His agony? Do they not know how to paint a resolute
219 XIII, 802 | distinction, in order to know them; otherwise they would
220 XIII, 807(178)| John 3:2. "We know that thou art a teacher
221 XIII, 826 | restored her son, "By this I know that thy words are true."~
222 XIII, 828 | believed in him? For we know that out of Galilee ariseth
223 XIII, 840 | right hand of the Father—know that all this is false and,
224 XIII, 841(205)| your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord." ~
225 XIII, 842 | as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is."
226 XIII, 842 | It is wonderful that you know not whence He is, and yet
227 XIII, 842 | devils, saying, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who
228 XIII, 842 | Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye"?~Miracles
229 XIII, 842 | times.~How glad you are to know the general rules, thinking
230 XIV, 861 | heretics say?~In order to know whether an opinion is a
231 XIV, 863 | love the truth, we cannot know it.~
232 XIV, 887 | prophecies, if you do not know that all this must happen;
233 XIV, 890 | Jesuits, must be made to know that it is not that of the
234 XIV, 914 | there are few who do not know that the purity of religion
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