We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us