To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.