There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.

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

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.