Alexandre Vinet
Alexandre Vinet
Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet, was a Swiss critic and theologian...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth17 June 1797
CountrySwitzerland
liberty slavery
Liberty is life; slavery is death.
christian sorrow resignation
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
aspiration aim humans
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
way causes slave
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
suffering doe sometimes
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
religion principles missions
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.