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.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Humanity is a comic role.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.