Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.