True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.