Quote #61
The tiniest flower is a thought, - a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition.
More from Honore de Balzac
- Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.
- Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
- Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
- Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain,…
- If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment…
- Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
- - Je suis tourmente par de mauvaises idees. - En quel genre? Ca se guerit, les idees. - Comment? - En y succombant.
- The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.