Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

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

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

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

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

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.

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

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

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

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

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.