It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
Maurice MaeterlinckAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice MaeterlinckTo be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
Maurice MaeterlinckWisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
Maurice Maeterlinck(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")
Maurice Maeterlinck