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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.