The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

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.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.