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.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

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

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

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

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.