[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.