As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.