Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.