“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”

It is impossible to exist without passion.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Boredom is the root of all evil.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

What labels me, negates me.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Don’t be stuck by how things seem to be going that you lose your faith and vision.

Some days, you cannot decide which route is meant for you. Some days, God seems to be in a mood to test your faith and you.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.