We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Anything that consoles is fake.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.