Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.