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

"We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have discovered ourselves than by those found by others."

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"What is the 'I'? A man at a window sees the passers-by; if I pass by, can I say that he saw me? No; for he did not think of me in particular. But if he loves someone, and I am that someone, then he lo…"