At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.