“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.”

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”

“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”

“To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.”

“In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by reason, progress, alcohol, work.”

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.”

“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses...”

“Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it's a funny habit.- No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, howe...”