However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.