There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.
The most dangerous savages live in cities.