Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.