Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

We are for religion against the religions.

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.