Thursday, September 10, 2009

I love these quotes . . just added them to my sidebar . . as well

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
-Immanuel Kant

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
-C. S. Lewis

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.
-Blaise Pascal

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life!
- The Bible (John 3:16)

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
-C. S. Lewis

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
-Francis Schaeffer

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question; and this is here impossible." - Charles Darwin, 1859,
Introduction to Origin of Species,

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

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
-Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
-Immanuel Kant

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
-Blaise Pascal

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
-Blaise Pascal

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-Immanuel Kant

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
-C. S. Lewis

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
-Immanuel Kant