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

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

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.

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

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.