The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Atheists ought to say what is perfectly evident; now it is not perfectly evident that the soul is material.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.