Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.