Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.
“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.”
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”
“In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work.”
“In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.”
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
“Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.”
“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”
“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”