“Truth is a point of view about things.”

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.