We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The solution of every problem is another problem

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.