[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it..

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence..

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea alm….

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she pe….

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love..

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark..

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small..

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not..

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates th….

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life..

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library..

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence..

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false..

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, ma….

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an ….

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence..

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be ri….

Love is faith and one faith leads to another..

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thi….

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing o….