Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.