Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.