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.
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'In the words of the Spanish philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno, 'Sometimes to be silent is to lie.' Our movement hasn't been silent but whispering at a barely audible level... it hardly represents the brutal truth!'
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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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 very crux of the problem.
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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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.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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.
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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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