Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.