"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
"Hjertet har sine grunner som fornuften ikke forstår"
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
"The world itself makes us sick of the world."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)