If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.