Prince Myshkin — Beauty will save the world.

The Idiot, Dostoevsky, Fyodor

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.

Eriugena, John Scotus

The purpose of philosophy is not to know what men have thought, but rather what the truth of things is.

Aquinas, Thomas

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Aquinas, Thomas

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

... he had that turn of mind which is often engendered when youth and intelligence find themselves closely allied: a truly exaggerated tendency toward skepticism.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

A dogma is not the absence of thought, but its end.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

We are producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

I am a fellow citizen of every soul that thinks: "Truth is my country."

de Lamartine, Alphonse