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.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

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