A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.