All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

The solution of every problem is another problem

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.