Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.