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1677Amsterdam, Netherlands
It is in the nature of Reason to regard things under a certain form of eternity. Insofar as the mind knows itself and the body under a species of eternity, it necessarily has knowledge of God, and knows that it is in God and is conceived through God.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Alexander von Humboldt·1845In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.
William Strunk Jr.·1918Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.
Isaac Newton·1727Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
