I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

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.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.