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

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

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.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

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

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.