The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.