It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiatedas to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.