Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.