“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

Our passions are ourselves.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.

Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.