The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?