"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."

Philosophy, Perception, Observation, Life, Truth

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."

Exlpore more Philosophy quotes

"War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning . . .This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Evil, Only, Human

"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Place, Heaven, Wonderful

"God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Want, Does, Apartment

"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Philosophy, Thought, Possession, Appearance, Life

"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Covet, Expect, Should

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Philosophy, Wonder, Existence, Stars, Curiosity

"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Will, Rest, Heavenly

"It is what it is because you let it be so."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Philosophy, Acceptance, Reality, Responsibility, Choice

"I am the creation of love.I am the source of love.I am the beginning of love.I like to vanish in love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Philosophy, Creation, Love, Self, Beginning

"I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Believe, Obedience, There

Explore more quotes by Blaise Pascal

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

Creativity, Imagination, Beauty, Happiness, Justice

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

Truth, Love, Falsehood

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

Happiness, God

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

Life, Nature, Being, Man

"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."

Wisdom, Evil, Fault, Faults, Illusion

"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."

Faith, Love, Mind, Want, Will

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

Faith, Religion, Act, Certainty, Sea

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

Nature, Importance, Ocean

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Philosophy, Actions, Causes, Desire, Force

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

Wisdom, Actions, Causes, Force