A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

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