It does not
create nature, man or God, but it finds them and seeks to understand
them. Philosophy is consciousness taking account of itself with all that
it contains. Now consciousness may contain a new life--the facts of
regeneration and of salvation, that is to say, Christian experience. The
understanding of the Christian consciousness is an integral part of
philosophy, as the Christian consciousness is a leading form of
religious consciousness, and religious consciousness an essential form
of consciousness.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth
which it contains.
Look twice, if what you want is a just conception; look once, if what
you want is a sense of beauty.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in
himself.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of
experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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The wealth of each mind is proportioned to the number and to the
precision of its categories and its points of view.
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To feel himself freer than his neighbor is the reward of the critic.
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