Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.