We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.