What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.