As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.

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.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

To think is to say 'no.'

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

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

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