At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.