(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")

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

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.

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.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.