He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.