The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.