Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.