The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.