It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.