Favorite quotes

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.