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

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

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.