I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him, and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

The soul has wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains are taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amid the enjoyments of sense.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

God is He without whom one cannot live.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.
Paul Simon (b.1942)

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at its heart.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you—for that is the meaning of your life.
Martin Buber (1878-1965)

Perhaps we could not fail to find God, if it were really God whom we were seeking.
John Baillie (1886-1960)

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1869-1914)