Life Quote by Lettie B. Cowman

“Pascal's scientific achievements, therefore, did not give him much confidence in the human condition. When he contemplated the immensity of the universe, he was…

— Karen Armstrong

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible…

— Blaise Pascal

“Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.”

— Walker Percy

“Diversion consoles us - in trivial ways - in the face of our miseries or perplexities; yet, paradoxically, it becomes the worst of our…

— Douglas Groothuis

“He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life…

— Milan Kundera

“Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.”

— Tanya Huff

“at all,” he said. “I was surrounded by hundreds of men waiting for the end of their lives, waiting for that something better that…

— Allen Eskens

“Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the…

— Sally Gardner

“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Few people nowadays know what man is. Many feel it intuitively and die more easily for that reason, just as I shall die more…

— Hermann Hesse

“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.”

— Toba Beta

“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent…

— Hermann Hesse