Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

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

Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Renunciation is submission to time.