It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.