Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.