All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.