“When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.”

“all appears to change when we change”

“What we do not understand we have no right to judge”

“Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.”

“In these moments of tête-à-tête with the infinite, how different life looks! How all that usually occupies and excites us becomes suddenly puerile, frivolous, and vain. We seem to ourselves mere puppets, marionettes, strutting seriously through a fantastic show, and mistaking gewgaws for things of great price.”

“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.”

“He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions – such a man is a mere article of the worlds furniture – a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being – an echo, not a voice.”