Quotables: GI style

Chesterton: Heretics
Now we have fallen a second time, and only the knowledge of evil remains in us. (2:1)
Nobody has any business to use the word “progress” unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals…For progress by its very name indicates a direction. (2:2)
Pascal: Pensees
The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end. So we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so. (#172)
Surely it is then a great evil to be in doubt, but it is at least an indispensable duty to seek when we are in such doubt. (#194) Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is within God, both without us and within us. (#465)

No one puts it cooler than that guy.

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (for those of you who wish to never know anything for sure)
At last I have discovered it – thought; this alone is inseparable from me. (4:1)
I will suppose therefore that not God, who is supremely good and the source of truth, but rather some malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me. (2:2)
Augustine: City of God
…The end or supreme good of this city [the city of God] is either peace in eternal life, or eternal life in peace. For peace is a good so great that even in this earthly and mortal life, there is no word we hear with such pleasure.
(that, my friends is why we are never satisfied here)