1. “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
2. “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
3. “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
4. “People almost invariably arrive at their belief not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
5. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
6. “It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
7. “In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
8. “Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
9. “The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
10. “Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
11. “Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
12. “There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
13. “Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”
14. “You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
15. “Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
