If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.