I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.