A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

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

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

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

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.