It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.