Idleness is the parent of psychology.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.