To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be

El que tiene fe en s ”­ mismo no necesita que los dem ”¡s crean en ”©l.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Consciousness is a disease

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine –...

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith

El que tiene fe en s ‘ mismo no necesita que los dem ‘¡s crean en ‘,l.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found

Your neighbor’s vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Science says: “We must live,” and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: “We must die,” and seeks how to make us die well.

The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the...

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and...

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in everything and everywhere, reveal fraud, foolishness and ineptitude is a work of supreme religious piety.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the...

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death