The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.