“The real is that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
“The production of belief is the sole function of thought.”
“The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth.”
“We have no power of thinking without signs.”
“Do not block the way of inquiry.”
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
“And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough, and life slips by like a field mouse not shaking the grass.”
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
“The value of things is not the time they last but the intensity with which they occur.”
“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.”
“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
“To ridicule philosophy is truly to philosophize.”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who do not.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present; we anticipate the future as too slow in coming, and we recall the past to stop its rapid flight.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”