Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

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

Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.