Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.