The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.