Forsaken Fortress

Famous quotes containing the words forsaken and/or fortress:

“God alone is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature which has not been serviceable in taking his place: the stars, the heavens, earth, the elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)