If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

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.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

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.

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

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