"Only one thing is necessary: to possess God — All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the e…"

"There is a great affinity in me with the Hindu genius - that mind, vast, imaginative, loving, dreamy and speculative,…"

"Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility o…"

"[There still remains the question whether] he who discovers a new world in the depths of the invisible would not do w…"

"There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in th…"

"I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life …"

"I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incess…"

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. — Amiel's journal; the Journal intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1890 (p.368)"

"There is but one thing needful — to possess God. All our senses, all our powers of mind and soul, all our external re…"

"To adore, to understand, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: there is my law my duty, my happiness, my heaven. Let …"