What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.