The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.