What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.