Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

I am at one with my duality.