Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

The philosopher says that God’s knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man’s knowledge.

When one’s function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence – even mental.

Since science’s competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.

God’s love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve.