Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.