The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.