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.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

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.

As nations improve, so do their gods.