The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

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