Occupation: Mathematician Birth: June 19, 1623 Death: August 19, 1662
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so..
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all..
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart..
May God never abandon me..
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it..
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you..
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen..
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death..
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True ….
La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in compos….
Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death..
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat..
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart..
We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism..
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed..
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God….
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough..
All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude..
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?.
To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize..