So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.