"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."

"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."

"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."

"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."

"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

"All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."