Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.