Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

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