You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.