What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

Life exists to be a mystery.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic body of knowledge and what science contains is certain or proved.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.