The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

All our efforts must tend towards light.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits