You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.