My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

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

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.