Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

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