Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.