The only real knowledge is who you really are – a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.