... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!