It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.