I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

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

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.