The best path through life is the highway. |
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. |
The great artist is the simplifier. |
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings |
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides |
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. |
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph. |
The only substance properly so called is the soul. |
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists / in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record. |
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms |
The thirst for truth is not a French passion |
The unfinished is nothing. |
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health |
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. |
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. |