Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.