We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone..

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it..

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth..

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature..

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which ….

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is ….

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest..

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the i….

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God..

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me..

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a ….

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ign….

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, a….

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used….

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone..

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought..

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot se….

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms..

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs..

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overp….

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion..