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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.