I believe in a funny way the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to...
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least...
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none he cannot find truth give him...
We know the truth not only by the reason but also by the heart.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign...
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that...
I have made this letter longer than usual only because I have not had the...
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special...
Atheism shows strength of mind but only to a certain degree.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for...
If we must not act save on a certainty we ought not to act on religion for...
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be...
Justice and power must be brought together so that whatever is just may be...
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he...
Our soul is cast into a body where it finds number time dimension....
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Man is but a reed the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is...
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is...
Man's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature as his true good...
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the...
The greater intellect one has the more originality one finds in men....
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form...
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
If all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in...
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and...
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from...
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were...
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for...
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are...
