Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

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

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.