Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.