Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.