What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed; once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.