Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!