It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

The important things are always simple.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.