The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.