We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.