Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.