Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

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, the power of proselytism.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.