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.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

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

The devil is an angel too.

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.