Law, without force, is impotent.

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.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.