A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
It would be impossible to “love” anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.