Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?