Not to be mad is another form of madness

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

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

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.