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.

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

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

The devil is an angel too.