All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.