A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.