Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

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.