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

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.