The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

(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")

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.