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.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction