Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.