We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.