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

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.