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Quotes from Séraphîta — Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 France

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11 quotes

Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.

Séraphîta (1835)

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

Séraphîta (1835)

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

Séraphîta (1835)

Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

Séraphîta (1835)

The tiniest flower is a thought, — a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition.

Séraphîta (1835)

Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.

Séraphîta (1835)

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Séraphîta (1835)

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment — giving to that word its exact significance.

Séraphîta (1835)

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

Séraphîta (1835)

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

Séraphîta (1835)

Science depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to her; the Angelic Spirit judges it in its relation to Heaven. In short, all things have a voice for the Spirit.

Séraphîta (1835)

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