Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.