Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

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

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

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