“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.”

“In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.”

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.”

“…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.”