Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.