"Tu connaîtras que les hommes sont eux-mêmes les artisans de leurs malheurs. Infortunés !"

"On ne se doute pas, au premier coup d’œil, du mal que fait l’ambition de mériter cet éloge si commun : Monsieur un tel est très-aimable."

"At the outset the essential element of all morality is, in Nietzsche's view, simply this, that it is a prolonged constraint."

"What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."

"Je trouve les hommes victimes victimes de l’illusion à tous les âges de la vie."

"Must philosophy therefore retire from this field, disappointed in its hopes ?"

"Man portrays himself in his deeds, and what a form it is that is depicted in the drama of the present day !"

"Dès le 6 octobre, en général, les feuilles commencent à tomber, en douches successives, après la gelée ou la pluie."

"De là, sur cent personnes, à peine une mérite que l’on débatte avec elle. On peut laisser le reste parler autant qu’ils veulent..."

"The love of Nature is a great gift, and if it is frozen or crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the loss."

"A contemplative habit of mind has advantages ranging from the most trivial to the most profound."

“Behold then in this little play A world-wide truth set free ! Easily may a symbol teach What thy reason cannot reach.”

"Nous en avons assez de l'homme qui « sait tout » ; il est le fléau de la société."

"When joy and pain are overcome, peace and love remain, and Wisdom softly whispers words of rest and calm."

"Le voyage intérieur exige la solitude. Personne n’accompagne un tel itinérant ; le voici rigoureusement seul."

"Correct or incorrect, relevant or meaningless, knowledge and pseudo-knowledge are as common as dirt and are therefore taken for granted."

"Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable..."

"We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρός – the right time – for a “metamorphosis of the gods” ..."

"C’est pourquoi je t’aime, ô calme de la solitude, plus que tout ce qui est vaste, parce que tu es infini !"

"Prolong the leisure ... and there will have to be more cinemas, more newspapers, more bad fiction, more radios and more cheap automobiles."

"To please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho’ most are ignorant or deficient in it."

"Throughout the Middle Ages this demon was known as Acedia, or, in English, Accidie. Monks were still his favourite victims..."

"He who lives wisely to himself and to his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat..."

"Henri Bergson, grand philosophe, grand écrivain, fut aussi, et devait l’être, un grand ami des hommes."