Occupation: Mathematician Birth: June 19, 1623 Death: August 19, 1662
It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles..
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and….
Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful..
Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee..
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the ….
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves..
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus C….
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves..
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?.
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural st….
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances..
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth..
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason..
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false..
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy..
All our dignity lies in our thoughts..
Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched;….
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience..
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists.
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happin….
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself..