... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me, like the river loves the sea.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.