"Custom is our nature. He who is accustomed to faith believes in it, and can no longer fear hell, and does not believe in anything else. And he who is accustomed to sin regards it as nothing, and can n…"

"The knowledge of man's misery without God is the knowledge of two things: his misery and his greatness."

"To ridicule philosophy is truly to philosophize."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are either true or false according to the side on which we look at them."