The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.