We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
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.