Philosophical Quotes
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. — Saint Augustine
- He that is jealous is not in love. — Saint Augustine
- Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. — Saint Augustine
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. — Saint Augustine
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — Saint Augustine
- Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine
- Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine