"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.