I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.