Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.