It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.