I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.