But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.