The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.