It seems that laughter needs an echo.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.