If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.