Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

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

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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.

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