And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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.
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 only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
Consciousness is a disease.
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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.
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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 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.
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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.
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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