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

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.