To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.