A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

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

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

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