Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

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

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.