Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.