The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.