Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.