Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
To understand is to forgive.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.