Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

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.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.