And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
Consciousness is a disease.
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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