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.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.
Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit.
He knows everything, absolutely everything. Imagine what an idiot he must be.
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
