It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.