“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”
“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.”
“Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.”
“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”
“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.”
“The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else.”