Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.