Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

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.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

A faith which does not doubt is a dead faith.

Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist.

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.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

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.