All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition