I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.