The only paradise is paradise lost.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.