Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage..

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men….

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be..

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering..

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we thi….

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious..

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time..

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself..

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired..

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of para….

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history..

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yo….

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists..

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goo….

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing..

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings..

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to..

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves..

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will..

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty..

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means..