No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.