One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.