Philosopher

Bahwa kita harus mencintai satu Tuhan saja adalah sesuatu yang sangat jelas sehingga tidak memerlukan mukjizat untuk membuktikannya.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Tak seorang pun akan berkata saat hadir sama seperti saat kita tidak ada.

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

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.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Pria menghabiskan waktu mengejar bola atau kelinci; itu adalah olahraga para raja.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Kecantikan adalah hubungan yang harmonis antara sesuatu di alam kita dan kualitas objek yang menyenangkan kita.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Anda tidak akan mencari saya jika Anda tidak memiliki saya.

Kesungguhan adalah antusiasme yang diredam oleh alasan.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.