The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.