Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

To think is to say 'no.'

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.