Philosophy is really homesickness.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.