It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.