The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.