philosophy Quotes

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.