“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.”

“The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.”

“And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.”

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”

“Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")”

“The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.”

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”