Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.