It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Consciousness is a disease.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

Man dies of cold not of darkness.

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

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

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.