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

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

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

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Consciousness is a disease.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.