To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.