Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.