All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.