How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.