Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.