My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.