[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.