We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Where children are, there is the golden age.