Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Hope is only the love of life.